Got quite into trawling up smashing short songs I have, so here's a few more in varying styles. Starting with 'The Honey's', a 60's girl-group, consisting of Marilyn & Diane Rovell (sisters) and their cousin Ginger Blake. They were produced by Brian Wilson, who as well as writing for them, dated & married Marilyn. The Honeys provided backing vocals on some Beachboys tracks, doing the same for Jan and Dean on three popular singles. There's not much by them available to buy these days, the following is from Pet Projects ; a collection of Wilson-produced [...]
I want to write more for this blog, I really do. Like right now, I have a number of good articles in mind ("What makes a good lyricist?," a write-up on the new Okkervil River record leak, baroque pop profiles, etc) but I'm just so very tired. But I do want to write something, so for tonight, I'm taking the lazy way out and doing a "Shuffle Post." Herein shall we enter the weird and wild world of my iTunes library for ten songs, yet unknown to you or I. And for each, I shall mention something about it worth [...]
I want to write more for this blog, I really do. Like right now, I have a number of good articles in mind ("What makes a good lyricist?," a write-up on the new Okkervil River record leak, baroque pop profiles, etc) but I'm just so very tired. But I do want to write something, so for tonight, I'm taking the lazy way out and doing a "Shuffle Post." Herein shall we enter the weird and wild world of my iTunes library for ten songs, yet unknown to you or I. And for each, I shall mention something about it worth [...]
ROBERT POLLARD [mp3] The Blondes Pollard also has a book of his artwork coming out soon from Fantagraphics - TOWN OF MIRRORS . Found on An Aquarium Drunkard . T ED LEO & THE PHARMACISTS [mp3] The World Is In The Terlet Found on Fluxblog . SILVER JEWS [mp3] Suffering Jukebox [mp3] [...]
(Sevens, a new feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.) My first exposure to a lot of things punk was the late music critic Robert Palmer's Rock and Roll: An Unruly History, which was written as a companion to the PBS documentary series of the same name. The chapter I [...]
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